It is only the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed within it which restrain laughter and consecrate the costume of any people.

As they approached the watchhouse Denisov stopped, peering into the forest.

We have some time to think about this, Kiki said, peering at him closely.

"Yeah," he replied, peering again through the binoculars.

Damian appeared, a fragmented vision, as if the vamp had been peering through a foggy window.

He turned away from them, his gaze going upward and peering through the skylight in his spacious battle command center.

"One more?" the doc asked, peering into her face.

The darkness peering out of her eyes was ancient and evil.

He wove through the crowd, peering between his eyelashes before he reached the main table where Hilden stood.

In old age he was a mere skeleton, with a long nose and eyes of preternatural brilliancy peering out of his wig.

Both fell silent, peering out through the darkness at the sound of Dolokhov's and Petya's steps as they advanced to the fire leading their horses.

She turned, peering again down the river, as if the message she'd delivered was as perfunctory as a call to supper.

Mrs. Watson answered the door with a shotgun over her shoulder, her wrinkled face peering up at Lana.

On the day of public procession - the last took place in 1857 or 1858 - naked priests and " wives" escorted the company with songs and dances; death was the penalty of those caught peering from their houses, and, apart from this, the natives feared loathsome diseases should they gaze upon the sacred scene.

"And who is this?" she asked her governess, peering into the face of her own daughter dressed up as a Kazan-Tartar.

On the way back Nicholas drove at a steady pace instead of racing and kept peering by that fantastic all-transforming light into Sonya's face and searching beneath the eyebrows and mustache for his former and his present Sonya from whom he had resolved never to be parted again.

Dean crawled on his hands and knees, peering under the vehicle for Billy's young girlfriend but there was no one else, only a liquor bottle—unlike its victim, unbroken.